The Memoir of Johnny Devine by Camille Eide

Author:Camille Eide
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: wwii army, christian historical romance, 1950s mccarthyism, hollywood legend heartthrob star, oppressive inequality and injustice, paranoia fear red scare, reputation womanizer, stenographer war widow single, stray cat lonely, war hero injured
Publisher: Ashberry Lane Publishing

Hope was always just out of reach. Like a shadow, I could see it but knew I could never touch it.

~The Devine Truth: A Memoir

18

As John and Eliza waited outside the hotel for their cabs, she heard someone speaking through a megaphone nearby. She looked around to find the source. “Do you hear that?”

John nodded. “Sounds like a rally. That’s typical, this close to campus. Although that one doesn’t look too promising.” He pointed across the hotel lawn. “Pretty thin crowd.”

A woman stood on a bench in front of a building, surrounded by about a dozen people, chanting something about equal rights.

“I’d like to hear what she’s saying. Do you mind?”

“I don’t mind,” he said.

They walked north along the hotel drive. Eliza started across Claremont Avenue, but John touched her arm.

“On second thought, I wouldn’t go over there if I were you,” he said, voice low.

Even through her jacket, her arm tingled where he touched her. “Why not?”

John looked left, then right along the busy street. “Like you, I support the message, but it’s not a good place to be seen. Things are shaky right now, with the all the communist scrutiny, and certain topics—such as equality for minorities—are often marked as communist sympathies.”

Which Eliza knew all too well. She needed to find out the truth about her parents before anyone else did. She needed to protect her parents—as well as herself—from needless suspicion. “So I’ve heard,” she said finally.

“We should probably get out of here,” he said, still looking around. “You never know who’s watching. It’s just smart to be careful. These days it seems they’ll charge anyone on the slightest suspicion—male or female.” He shook his head. “How’s that for equality?”

Eliza tried to smile at the irony but couldn’t. It was too unsettling.

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